Interview Karen G. Lloyd on Intraterrestrials June 04, 2025 Intraterrestrials by Karen G. Llyod is a biologist鈥檚 firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth鈥檚 surface鈥攁nd how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth. Read More
Essay Mark P. Witton on King Tyrant June 03, 2025 Tyrannosaurus rex is the world鈥檚 favorite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by paleontologists. Read More
Interview Audrey Truschke on India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent June 02, 2025 Audrey Truschke鈥檚聽India is a stunning new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global contexts鈥攆rom antiquity to today. Read More
Interview Shari Rabin on The Jewish South May 29, 2025 In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to 鈥淛ews, heathens, and other dissenters,鈥� ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States. Read More
Interview Nicole C. Rust on Elusive Cures May 15, 2025 Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected. Read More
Interview Hope Harvey on Doubled Up May 14, 2025 More than fifteen percent of US children鈥攐ver eleven million鈥攍ive in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. Read More
Essay The world of John McPhee May 14, 2025 When I set out to find the whole world of John McPhee, to document and explore his extraordinary career as a writer, I had no sense of the fascinating marathon of research ahead. Read More
Interview John Tolan on Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present May 13, 2025 Most popular histories of Islam continue to repeat conventional pietistic accounts. In contrast, John Tolan draws on decades of new historical research that has transformed knowledge of the origins and development of the Muslim faith. Read More
Interview Irene Vega on Bordering on Indifference May 09, 2025 In her new book, Bordering on Indifference, Irene Vega tells the story of how U.S. Border Patrol Agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers come into the work, how they are trained and socialized once on the job, and how that training and socialization impacts the way they reconcile its many moral and racial tensions. Read More
Interview Vali Nasr on Iran鈥檚 Grand Strategy May 07, 2025 Vali Nasr examines Iran鈥檚 political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today鈥檚 Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world. Read More
Interview Lars Krutak on Indigenous Tattoo Traditions May 05, 2025 Transporting readers through history, anthropologist Lars Krutak explores the art and customs of tattooing across numerous ancestral lands, including Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Arctic, Oceania, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Siberia. Read More
Essay Personal advice columns, then and now April 30, 2025 Mary Beth Norton's research into "The Athenian Mercury" reveals what has changed鈥攁nd stayed the same鈥攐ver the long history of advice columns. Read More
Essay Why linguistic diversity matters April 29, 2025 Over 7,000 languages are spoken today, but nearly half could vanish by the end of the century. Read More
Essay 快色直播tores are arsenals of democracy April 25, 2025 As long as there have been bookstores, booksellers have been threatened, arrested, jailed, fined, and prosecuted. Read More
Essay Fire sermons: Seneca and Thoreau on climate trauma April 21, 2025 鈥淐limate trauma鈥� is a phrase that has now entered the global lexicon. As global temperatures rise and population densifies in settled areas, the effects of catastrophic weather events like floods, hurricanes, and fires, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, are proving ever more destructive to human lives and livelihoods. Read More
